Behind the Scenes - Our 2nd season, 2013

Looking back at 2013 -- it was a wonderful year!

We opened our home to more guests this year than last, and were delighted to see familiar returning faces as well as meeting new friends. We welcomed guests from Australia, Europe, the United States, several Canadian Provinces including Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta as well as from here in our home province of British Columbia. August and September were record months for us!. We introduced the Lemon Lavender Cookie; inspired from our travels from Provence. We added some local art to our walls. We invite you to scroll down and review 2013 wish us. We look forward to 2014!

We put in a rock garden and a walkway! We have a new prune plum tree, added some drought-loving native grasses and some low-maintenance flowering plants.

Late April 2013: Our Front Garden

Late June 2013: Our Front Garden

Mid October: Our Front Garden

Mid September: Apple Chips make great snacks!

cored, thinly sliced, with peels left on, on extra sugar, dehydrated to a nice chewy consistency. You will be able to slowly taste the natural sweetness of the apple.

Foraging Morels in June

June means time to forage for mushrooms. There are Morels to be found in the forests around Summelrand. They make a wonderful sauce for steaks and pasta and for breakfast -- omelet.

We have not been so lucky with finding wild asparagus. Any long time local will tell you their wild asparagus patch is precious and secret; and will never divulge its whereabouts. So we buy ours from The Market in Summerland, right off Hwy 97C and Jones Flat Road. We made a wonderful Asparagus Risotto for dinner, but again it, too can be wonderful in an omelette; especially the local variety with its tender young shoots.